Job Title:
Manufacturing Engineer (NPI)
Location:
Rochester
Salary:
£43,000 – £50,000 depending on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
Working within a highly collaborative, cross‑functional team to develop and deliver advanced aerospace electronic systems, including head‑up displays (HUDs), helmet‑mounted displays, flight
control
computers,
active
inceptors/control sticks, and a wide range of commercial and military avionics
Delivering NPI outputs in line with an Operations project plan, ensuring manufacturing readiness aligns with programme milestones from Bid and Development through Qualification and Initial Production
Partnering closely with Engineering teams to review,
challenge, and influence designs, ensuring they meet Unit Production Cost targets (UPC) and Process Failure Mode Effects
Analysis
(PFMEA)
objectives
Leading
producibility reviews and championing Design for Manufacture (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA). Leveraging your
own
experience and that of subject matter experts to define and
manage
work packages that improve cost, manufacturability, and process robustness
Supporting the development of production processes, tooling, and manufacturing instructions for new products. Providing hands‑on support during prototype builds and capturing lessons learned to drive future improvements
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
Degree‑level qualification or equivalent experience in an engineering discipline
Proven
application of DFX methodologies across the product development lifecycle
Experience in creating and delivering compliant manufacturing instructions for electro‑mechanical products
Working knowledge of 3D CAD tools (e.g. Creo, SolidWorks, CATIA)
Desirable :
Experience of working within an EN9100‑compliant environment
Exposure to APQP/PPAP and associated manufacturing deliverables
Experience of supporting the introduction of new products within the aerospace sector
Benefits:
As well as a
competitive
pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The NPI team:
As a Manufacturing Engineer in our NPI team, you will help transform innovative designs into cost-effective, manufacturable products. Partnering with Engineering, you’ll embed DFX and APQP
principles
from concept to production. This high-impact role influences early design
decisions
and manufacturing strategy across aerospace and maritime programmes.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder
etc .) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please
speak
to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export
control
restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict
the roles
you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All
applicants
must
as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where
applicants
must
typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for
the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date:
2nd March 2026
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for
the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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